Enterprise: IPv6
The Strategic Path to Migration
How much latency will proxies and Carrier Grade NAT (CGNs) add to applications?
Can the data center serve IPv6 content at scale?
How can we add IPv6 support without adding new vulnerabilities?
IPv4 address depletion is creating urgency for enterprises to transition networks and data centers to support IPv6. This means determining what, when, and how to upgrade in order to stay prepared, optimize investment, and minimize disruption to users and services.
To effectively support IPv4 and IPv6 in tandem, network architects must employ robust and scalable transition mechanisms that can add latency, impact application performance, and introduce new threats to security. In maintaining operational excellence during migration, they need a means of benchmarking competing solutions that serves to optimize:
- Access to both IPv4 and IPv6 Internet content by internal users
- Availability of both IPv4 and IPv6 content to external users
- End-to-end network scalability and performance
- Application performance and end-user QoE
Ixia: Demonstrating and Delivering Value
Ixia IPv6 migration assessments deliver the insight enterprises need to evaluate and implement strategic, cost-effective transition plans. We simulate real-world networking environments to determine which parts of the network and data center should be upgraded or replaced and when.
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Ixia's strategic IPv6 migration evaluations include:
- Benchmarking dual-stack router/network performance
- Evaluating device and firmware interoperability
- Simulating peak usage to measure application performance
- Assessing internal users’ access to IPv6 Internet content
- Measuring the impact of IPv6 proxies and carrier grade NAT
- Deciding when and how long software upgrades will suffice before replacing hardware
- Simulating clients and servers to validate delivery of IPv6 content at scale
- Determining how the increasing ratio of IPv6:IPv4 traffic will impact network and application performance
Ixia simulates a combination of IPv4/IPv6 routing protocols and wire-rate traffic to model and evaluate the pros and cons of different IPv6 transition options. Partnering with us equips enterprise IT strategists to assess the true cost of transition technologies in terms of CapEx, performance, and scalability, and to demonstrate the value of the decisions they make.
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IxNetwork - end-to-end network infrastructure testing and assessment
End-to-end test environment for measuring the performance and impact of switching and routing infrastructures, varying network conditions (latency, jitter, congestion) and evolving data center switching architectures. Provides rapid isolation of network issues and service violations. ( Learn more)
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IxLoad - real-world traffic generation, performance assessment
Generates real-user traffic for assessing network performance and end-user QoE. Emulates live network conditions and traffic mixes at scale to provide relevant qualitative metrics for validating the performance of voice, video, data and Web applications. ( Learn more)
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IxVeriWave - Wireless LAN (WLAN) site and performance assessments
Measures impact of network conditions on Wi-Fi devices and QoE in real and ideal traffic scenarios. Enables modeling of diverse client mixes to assess interoperability, roaming, scalability and voice / data /video / Web performance ( Learn more)
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IxVM - complete L2-7 traffic generation and analysis for virtualized environments
A software-based implementation of Ixia's industry-leading test platforms and "virtual chassis." Virtual traffic generation and assessment informs projections for traffic routing, capacity planning, quality policies and data center accessibility. ( Learn more)
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IxChariot - software-based traffic generation
Helps more than 5,000 businesses worldwide cost-effectively measure performance of distributed networks in real time using software-based emulation. Encompasses a wide variety of endpoint devices, computer operating systems, and Ixia's vast library of test scripts to facilitate assessing the impact of proposed changes on QoE. ( Learn more)
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IxANVL - standards compliance testing
Includes Ixia's full suite of IPv6 conformance testing. ( Learn more)
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Ixia Professional Services - cost-effective onsite assessments of design, equipment, providers, performance and value
Testing as a Service (TaaS) suite of onsite assessments leveraging the world’s leading test systems and expertise to demonstrate and enhance value and performance. ( Learn more)
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